MONSTER MOVIES THAT SCARED ME THE MOST!

Here's a list of movies that scared me the most when I saw them at the theater when they came out, back in the fifties. The list starts with the scariest ones first...

THE BLOB is my number one scary movie, my dad took me to see it when I was just ten years old. When Steve goes back to the doc's house and sees something through the blinds, well, that was enough for me! I sat in the lounge while my dad watched the movie. After about 20 minutes, I went back in to the theater but covered my eyes a lot! I had nightmares for years after that!

Next on my list is THE FLY, when the creature is finally shown, with the twitching and all, well, it literally blew my little mind into bite-sized pieces!!

The ID Monster in FORBIDDEN PLANET was both mind-boggling and terrifying, wow, getting to see this incredible movie when it came out was a gift from the sci-fi gods!! I was 8 years old.

I also saw TARANTULA when I was 8, it was a creepy movie to start with, but, when I caught a glance of Leo here, right before the monster gets him, well, I almost fainted. That face haunted me for years!!

Again, I was only 8 when I saw INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. I swear, this movie was so tense and shocking that it just left me with a feeling of supreme dread!

I was 9 years old when I saw the last three movies on the list. I loved KRONOS, it was so unique! But, the creepiest parts had to do with Dr. Eliot being possessed by that alien force!!

Saw this one with my neighbors, we sat close to the front and in the center. Whenever the big slobbering scorpion made its closeup, they turned the freakin' sound way up!! It was a totally insane experience!

Lastly is CURSE OF THE DEMON. Wow, talk about a wild ride, the part that really got me was when Dana was leaving the doctor's house at night and walks through the woods with that crazy ball of light chasing him!

Okay then, make sure to check back for more cool stuff from the Dungeon Gang!

EXPLOITATIONARY TRAILER SPLASHES!!!

 It's a thrill to be here tonight! I've been watching some olde trailers lately, and in the 50's, here's some of the language they would use to get you excited and all fired up for that next cheap flick!

 Single words were always effective!

 But I think single words should always have exclamation points!

 Now these people get it!!!

 
There are a couple of categories you can throw these things into, like this is basically an announcement!

That wasn't good enough, so they had to play the "Ultimate" card!

But then the announcements start getting scarier!

 And if a nightmare threatening the world isn't enough for you.......

.....Then it's terrifying time!

 And what's more terrifying that most terrifying? More terrifying!

 What's worst? Something "More Terrifying Than Any Horror Known To Man" or "The Biggest Shock Of A Lifetime?" Most likely at that point, it ain't gonna make much difference!

Speaking of shocking, the next phase are the warnings, and these are the things you really have to watch out for, because it's all really bad from here on out!

 Okay, "Fear Will Pierce Your Flesh," which doesn't sound very appetizing at all, and if that's not bad enough,

 "Your Flesh Will Crawl!" That's just creepy!

"Brutal and Blood-Thirsty!"

 Oh, yeah, let's party!

 And the best warning of all comes from you know where!!

Because if you don't heed that warning, this can happen to you!
(Looking at this really makes me want to go watch "The Blob" right now!)

And what appears to be the mildest message might just be the scariest of all, because we as a society might have already entered this phase!!

SOME SILENT HORROR MOVIE POSTERS FOR A FRIDAY

Oh man, I am so sick today... Like a mailman, I have to deliver this post, without a sub though! Besides the headache, my Niagara Falls nose is really getting on my freakin' nerves!!

Edison's FRANKENSTEIN is really something to behold, it's just plain weird, and crude! The artwork reminds me of the 78 rpm records my parents had.

This Universal poster art for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA starring Lon Chaney is super busy. Check out that claim.. And a cast of 5000 'others.' Looks like that term has been replaced with 'extras' nowadays.

Lon also worked for MGM Studios, here's a very nice poster for the lost movie, LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT!

Wow, this poster for MGM's FAUST looks like a cover for an old horror pulp magazine!!

In Germany, their movie posters sometimes reflected the Euro Cubist art movement, like in this poster for THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI...

This poster for THE GOLEM ist plain insane, damn, what a crazy, creepy place to live!

Lastly we have HAXAN, an awesome Swedish-Danish production. We have a nude maiden and a peeping tom devil on this poster! Check in tomorrow when Eegah!! keeps the ball rolling, here, at the Dungeon!

DER FLUCH DER GELBEN SCHLANGE - "The Curse Of The Yellow Snake" - Edgar Wallace (1963)

 It's Edgar Wallace Wednesday down in The Dungeon, and tonight's feature is called "Der Fluch Der Gelben Schlange," or auf Englisch........

 "The Curse Of The Yellow Snake!"

 "The Curse Of The Yellow Snake" is a bizarre little film! It's got all the regular players starting with Joachim Fuchsberger who I always like, but he basically always plays himself, sometimes as a cop, sometimes on the other side, and sometimes in the middle, like right here!

 Another regular player in these German Edgar Wallace films is Werner Peters! Werner usually plays the same kind of character too, normally, a sweaty nervous two-timing loser, and he's very good at it!

 This is the pragmatic shot! If it works, use the living Hell out of it!

These two gentlemen are half brothers, Pinkas Braun as Fing-Su/St. Clay on the left, and Joachim Fuchsberger as Clifford Lynn on the right! They don't like each other!

It's a story about two brothers, one with a Chinese Mother, and......

.........Two sisters, except one of them is really a neice! I had to go back and watch the beginning again to figure it all out myself!
Doris Kirchner and Brigitte Grothum are the sisters!

Clifford Lynn and his brother couldn't be more different! Cliff's an easygoing nice guy, and his brother Fing-Su iis more interested in world domination, and the secret to that is a little sculpture called the Yellow Snake! The Chinese think that whoever has the Yellow Snake will have all the power, so there is fierce competition for it!

While these guys are running around, it gives me a good opportunity to do something I haven't done in a while! The music in this film is composed by Krimi-Classic composer Raimund Rosenberger, and it's so odd, you just need to listen to this 42 second snippet! I'm not sure if the guy thought that sounded Chinese or what, but he obviously was an early electronic wizard of some sort! I can't say I know what the Hell is going on, but you can Check it out for yourself right HERE!

Yes, they really did use this shot!!

That would have been some tough extra work for me! If I stay bent over like that for more than 30 seconds my back starts killing me!

There's lots of Chinese knives in this movie, and they use them for all kinds of purposes....

 ..............even delivering the mail!

So that gets this new year started nicely I think! They had the golden serpent hidden for years to keep it from the bad guys! In the end of the movie, they just break it to stop the power grab, and that's that! Let's just hope it wasn't a copy and that the real one isn't in Asia some place where it could fall into the wrong hands, or maybe it already has!

A HIT OF UNHAPPY NEW YEAR HORROR MOVIES

Here are three horror movies from the eighties that have an Unhappy New Year's theme, you know, to celebrate the New Year!.. Whatever the Hell that means!!

First is TERROR TRAIN, in this story, a masked killer targets six college students responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier. Unfortunately, the gang's currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train! After roles in HALLOWEEN, THE FOG and PROM NIGHT, this was the next flick Jamie Lee Curtis would appear in. Man, she looks so young!

Then we gots NEW YEAR'S EVIL. During a New Year's Eve celebration in Los Angeles, a disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when the New Year countdown hits zero in each time zone, someone will be murdered! And, she will be the last one to die!!

Last one is BLOODY NEW YEAR... Here, five shipwrecked English teenagers take refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Years. The problem is that it's early summer, and the walls themselves are striking out against them!.. What the Hell?!!

So, I guess we're ready for another fun filled year, here we go, at the Dungeon!